Looking Back

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others. 

1. disaster 
2. injury  
3. tsunami
4. provision

Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others. 

1. rescue 
2. natural
3. erupt 
4. damage

Choose the word which is stressed differently from the others.

1. geography
2. biology
3. psychology
4. sociology

In some areas, human ________ can be a contributing factor in causing landslides.

1. acts 
2. actions 
3. acting 
4. activities

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

1. erupted
2. collapsed
3. evacuated
4. predicted

When there is a ________, a lot of water covers an area where there usually isn’t water.

1. flood
2. tornado
3. drought
4. hurricane

Complete the sentence with the past perfect form of the verb in bracket.

When Sam (pay)________ the bill, we left the restaurant and went home.

A ________ is a storm in which the air moves very quickly in a circle.

1. hurricane
2. typhoon
3. tornado
4. flood

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence.

When we (come / came / had come) back to our home village last month, it (changed / had changed / changes)so much.

Typhoon Haiyan made the damage, and ____________ of life became great in the Philippines.

1. lose 
2. loses 
3. losing 
4. loss

Put the verb in bracket in the Past Simple or Past Perfect.

When he came to the stadium, the match (already/ begin) _________.

Before she (watch) ________ TV, she (do) ________ homework.

1. watched/ had done
2. had watched/ did
3. watched/ did
4. watched/ was doing

The man sitting next to me on the plane was very nervous. He _________ before.(never fly) 

1. 'd never flown 
2. never flew
3. never flies
4. never flown

Sam washed the car after she ________ it with gas.

1. had filled
2. have filled
3. fills
4. filled

By the time people _________ (leave), the storm _________ (break).

1. left/ had broken
2. leaves/ breaks
3. left/ broke
4. had left/ broke

The fire ________ (already/ reach) the roof by the time the firemen arrived.

1. has already reached
2. had already reached
3. already reached
4. already had reached

You didn’t stay home. I would rather you (stay) _________ home.

1. had stayed
2. stayed
3. were staying
4. has stayed

There was a lot of snow outside because it _______ (snow) earlier in that day.

1. had snowed
2. snowed
3. has snowed
4. was snowed

Rearrange these words to make a complete sentence.

• The
• human life
• has
• completely
• been
• changed
• with
• science
• and
• technology.

Using the correct passive form of the verb in bracket to complete the sentence.

The hot weather __________ to continue while there were longer hours of sunshine. (expect)

A number of other provinces will declare drought _____________ in the coming weeks.

1. accident 
2. emergency 
3. event 
4. situation

The engine of the car has to _________.

1. be repaired
2. repair
3. repaired
4. been repaired

Roofs of thousands of houses __________ across the road during the cyclone. (blow)

1. were blown
2. blew
3. was blown
4. blow

Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the one in italics.

How did the police find the lost man?

1. How was the lost man found by the police?
2. How was the lost man finded by the police?
3. How did the lost man found by the police?
4. How did the lost man find by the police?

Choose the best answer.

Their work had been finished; had finished; were finished before you came yesterday.